A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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 above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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