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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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