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No 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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Care God Love Need Seperate Sun Warm Window
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Song Taste Voice World
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Age Dreams Live Myself Regret
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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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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One Liner True
Sunlight is painting.
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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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Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World
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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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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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Frame Heart Intellectual Mad
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
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Experience People Time
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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