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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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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.
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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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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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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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