Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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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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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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