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Nathaniel Hawthorne

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Fashion Happiness Love Rest
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Commitment Entertainment Fortune Ideas Murder Person Suicide
Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Horrible One Liner Ugly
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Environment Hero World
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
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Gratitude Hands Happiness Need Philosophy Satisfaction Seek
I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Description God Need Reality See Word
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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Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
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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Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Fight Resolution Wrong
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World
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
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Calm Distance Right True View
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Philosophy Reflection River Spiritual Tree World
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time

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