Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAll 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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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 dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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