Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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