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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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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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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.

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