The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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