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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Bond Fall Family Relationship Rise
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
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
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Age Dreams Live Myself Regret
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Song Taste Voice World
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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Cold Forget Man Memories Monument Oneself Sad
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World
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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Congratulation Death Dreams Moments Trouble Wake Up
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
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
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
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Death Funny Mood Myself
Moonlight is sculpture.
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Art Light Moon One Liner
Sunlight is painting.
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Art Light One Liner Painting Sun
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
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Beyond Eyes Heart Seek Woman
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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One Liner True
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Flower Generosity Justice One Liner
Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Horrible One Liner Ugly
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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Appearance Life Lose Myself
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Darkness Heart Oneself
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Environment Hero World
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Choice Happiness Pleasure
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Appearance Friendship Man Recognition Trust

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