Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEArticulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover 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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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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