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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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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 singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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