Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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