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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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