The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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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 must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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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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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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