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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

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Appearance Friendship Man Recognition Trust
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
Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Build Life One Liner
Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Horrible One Liner Ugly
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.
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Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Philosophy Reflection River Spiritual Tree World
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
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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Congratulation Death Dreams Moments Trouble Wake Up
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 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
Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Flower Generosity Justice One Liner
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Art Economics Friendship Religion Stranger
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Appearance Life Lose Myself
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
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
Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Bond Fall Family Relationship Rise
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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Activity Evil Heart Human Life Philosophy
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Age Dreams Live Myself Regret
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
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
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
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Divine Holy Pure Salt White

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