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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!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Earth Monument Mountain Nature One Liner
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
When 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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Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Eyes Fingers Philosophy Reality See Spiritual Touch True
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
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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Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
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.
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Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Inspirational Love Quality Selfishness
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Age Dreams Live Myself Regret
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Earth Kind Man Spirit
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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Cold Forget Man Memories Monument Oneself Sad
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
Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Build Life One Liner

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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