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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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Build Foundation Guilty Home Reality World
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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Book Combination Evil Goodness Hands Innocence Power Stand Word
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
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
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
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Change Deep Dreams Evil Fashion Heart Place Revolution Secret Soul World
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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Frame Heart Intellectual Mad
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
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
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
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
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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Autumn Day Endurance Home Light Myself Shine Stay Sun Time
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Body Spiritual Symptom
Sunlight is painting.
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Art Light One Liner Painting Sun

Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.

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