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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Earth Monument Mountain Nature One Liner
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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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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