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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Dreams Strange Truth
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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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
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick
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
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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Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Fools Greatness Hero Obstacle
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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