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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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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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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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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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