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" What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dark
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" Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. "
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" Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. "
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" Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. "
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" Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. "
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" Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. "
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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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" The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. "
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" We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. "
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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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" All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. "
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" The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. "
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