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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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
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
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
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
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
Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Bond Fall Family Relationship Rise
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
Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Dreams Strange Truth
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
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Earth Monument Mountain Nature One Liner
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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Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Deep Hate Love Observation Subject Wisdom
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Divine Holy Pure Salt White
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
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
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Choice Important Place Self Love Worth

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