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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Choice Happiness Pleasure
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
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
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Advantage Artist Expression Photography Poet Poetry Reading Thinking
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
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
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time
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
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
Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Bond Fall Family Relationship Rise
Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Animal Happiness One Liner Philosophy Wisdom
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
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Earth Monument Mountain Nature One Liner
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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Agony Heart Illusion Laughter Myself Pain Reality
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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