This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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