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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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Experience People Time
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Philosophy Reflection River Spiritual Tree World
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Mirror One Liner Reflection Voice
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Inspirational Mindset Power Thinking Yourself
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Activity Evil Heart Human Life Philosophy
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
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
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Brutal Himself Man Rough Sensual
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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Choice Important Place Self Love Worth
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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Face Family Man Period True
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Deep Hate Love Observation Subject Wisdom
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
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
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
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Environment Hero World

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