To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEOur 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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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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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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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