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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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 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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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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