Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMy 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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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