A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAnd there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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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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