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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAt 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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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