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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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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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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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, 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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