The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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