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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
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
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Mirror One Liner Reflection Voice
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
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
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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Activity Evil Heart Human Life Philosophy
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Face Family Man Period True
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Courage Happiness Philosophy Possession Release Wisdom Yourself
Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Animal Happiness One Liner Philosophy Wisdom
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
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
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Body Spiritual Symptom
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
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Fools Greatness Hero Obstacle
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.

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