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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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
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
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Appearance Letter Truth
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Beyond Creation Day Enjoyment Heart Immortal Love Thinking
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Calm Distance Right True View
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Environment Hero World
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Gratitude Hands Happiness Need Philosophy Satisfaction Seek
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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One Liner True
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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Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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
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
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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Dedication Greatness Ideas Man Memories Monument Need Oneself Recognition Worth
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Agony Heart Illusion Laughter Myself Pain Reality
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Fight Resolution Wrong

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