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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Face Family Man Period True
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
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure
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
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Appearance Letter Truth
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom
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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Beyond Happiness Patience Philosophy Pursue Yourself
Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Build Life One Liner
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Brutal Himself Man Rough Sensual
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Choice Happiness Pleasure
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
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Earth Monument Mountain Nature One Liner

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

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