Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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