Ugliness without tact is horrible.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhen 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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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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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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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