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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA 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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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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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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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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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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