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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Mirror One Liner Reflection Voice
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Eyes Fingers Philosophy Reality See Spiritual Touch True
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Forest Marketing Place Talk
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Age Dreams Live Myself Regret
Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Bond Fall Family Relationship Rise
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Build Foundation Guilty Home Reality World
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
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Book Combination Evil Goodness Hands Innocence Power Stand Word
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Ability Greatness Happiness Man Moral
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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Description God Need Reality See Word
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time
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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Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
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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Commitment Entertainment Fortune Ideas Murder Person Suicide
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Inspirational Love Quality Selfishness

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

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