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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.
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Face Family Man Period True
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
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
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
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
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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Choice Important Place Self Love Worth
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure
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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Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
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
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Inspirational Mindset Power Thinking Yourself
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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Change Deep Dreams Evil Fashion Heart Place Revolution Secret Soul World
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Environment Hero World
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick
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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