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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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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Nobody, 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 go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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