The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWords – 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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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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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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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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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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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