A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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.
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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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