Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere 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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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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