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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

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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Dedication Greatness Ideas Man Memories Monument Need Oneself Recognition Worth
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Fashion Happiness Love Rest
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
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Beyond Eyes Heart Seek Woman
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Fools Greatness Hero Obstacle
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Calm Distance Right True View
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
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
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
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Ordinary Poison Quiet Woman
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.
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Body Spiritual Symptom
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
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Earth Kind Man Spirit

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