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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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