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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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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
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Accuracy Brother Honesty
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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