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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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