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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

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
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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Advantage Artist Expression Photography Poet Poetry Reading Thinking
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Dreams Strange Truth
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
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
Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Animal Happiness One Liner Philosophy Wisdom
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Appearance Friendship Man Recognition Trust
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
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom 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
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
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Earth Kind Man Spirit
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 cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Autumn Day Endurance Home Light Myself Shine Stay Sun Time
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Congratulation Death Dreams Moments Trouble Wake Up
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
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Inspirational Mindset Power Thinking Yourself
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Eyes Fingers Philosophy Reality See Spiritual Touch True
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Arrival Dumb Himself Man Perfection Word
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Forest Marketing Place Talk
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Song Taste Voice World

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