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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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
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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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Change Deep Dreams Evil Fashion Heart Place Revolution Secret Soul World
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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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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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