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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Agony Heart Illusion Laughter Myself Pain Reality
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Philosophy Reflection River Spiritual Tree World
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Advantage Artist Expression Photography Poet Poetry Reading Thinking
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Environment Hero World
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom
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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Cold Forget Man Memories Monument Oneself Sad
Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Horrible One Liner Ugly
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Body Spiritual Symptom
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
I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Song Taste Voice World
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Activity Evil Heart Human Life Philosophy
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Brutal Himself Man Rough Sensual
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Accuracy Brother Honesty

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

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