Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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