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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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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.
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