A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETo 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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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