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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Accuracy Brother Honesty
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Fight Resolution Wrong
Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Flower Generosity Justice One Liner
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Dreams Moments Ourselves Sleep Wake Up
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
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Choice Happiness Pleasure
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
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
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Darkness Heart Oneself
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure
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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Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom
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
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
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Mirror One Liner Reflection Voice
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
Moonlight is sculpture.
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Art Light Moon One Liner
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Song Taste Voice World
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Face Family Man Period True
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Death Funny Mood Myself
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Arrival Dumb Himself Man Perfection Word
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Beyond Happiness Patience Philosophy Pursue Yourself
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
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Gratitude Hands Happiness Need Philosophy Satisfaction Seek

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