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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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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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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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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