Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Sunlight is painting.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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