The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIf 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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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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