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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time
Moonlight is sculpture.
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Art Light Moon One Liner
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Song Taste Voice World
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World
Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Experience People Time
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Age Dreams Live Myself Regret
It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Ability Greatness Happiness Man Moral
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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Description God Need Reality See Word
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Care God Love Need Seperate Sun Warm Window
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
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
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Frame Heart Intellectual Mad

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