The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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