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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Build Foundation Guilty Home Reality World
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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Age Dreams Live Myself Regret
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Sunlight is painting.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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.
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