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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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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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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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 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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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