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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Appearance Friendship Man Recognition Trust
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Appearance Letter Truth
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
Moonlight is sculpture.
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Art Light Moon One Liner
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Mirror One Liner Reflection Voice
Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Care God Love Need Seperate Sun Warm Window
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Forest Marketing Place Talk
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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Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Fight Resolution Wrong
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Appearance Life Lose Myself
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 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
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
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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Description God Need Reality See Word
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Dedication Greatness Ideas Man Memories Monument Need Oneself Recognition Worth
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

God Meaning Talk Voice

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