The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEHappiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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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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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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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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