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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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