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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
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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Hands Heart Man Passion Win Woman
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Song Taste Voice World
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Fight Resolution Wrong
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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Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
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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Body Spiritual Symptom
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Autumn Day Endurance Home Light Myself Shine Stay Sun Time
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Ordinary Poison Quiet Woman
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Earth Monument Mountain Nature One Liner
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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Beyond Creation Day Enjoyment Heart Immortal Love Thinking
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Inspirational Love Quality Selfishness
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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Dedication Greatness Ideas Man Memories Monument Need Oneself Recognition Worth
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Beyond Happiness Patience Philosophy Pursue Yourself
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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Change Deep Dreams Evil Fashion Heart Place Revolution Secret Soul World
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Accuracy Brother Honesty
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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Advantage Artist Expression Photography Poet Poetry Reading Thinking
Moonlight is sculpture.
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Art Light Moon One Liner
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Calm Distance Right True View
Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Flower Generosity Justice One Liner
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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Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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One Liner True
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Easy Effort Hard Hard Work One Liner Poet Reading Writing
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
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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Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure

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