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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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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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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Dreams Strange Truth
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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