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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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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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Sunlight is painting.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Build Life One Liner
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Death Funny Mood Myself
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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Appearance Life Lose Myself
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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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One Liner True

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