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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
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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Description God Need Reality See Word
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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Frame Heart Intellectual Mad
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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One Liner True
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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Commitment Entertainment Fortune Ideas Murder Person Suicide
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Appearance Friendship Man Recognition Trust
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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Experience People Time
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Earth Kind Man Spirit
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Age Dreams Live Myself Regret
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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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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Darkness Heart Oneself
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom
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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Ability Greatness Happiness Man Moral

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