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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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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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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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