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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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