A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENo 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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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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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