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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

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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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