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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Topic: Accuracy
Source: None
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Topic: Accuracy
Source: None
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Topic: Affection
Source: None
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And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger
about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is
now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown
cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that
are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.
Topic: Apples
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Old Manse
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Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only
what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which
supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial
flowers--to the daily life of others.
Topic: Circumstance
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Old Manse
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When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both
sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most
at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact
with it.
Topic: Contention
Source: The Marble Faun (vol. II, ch. XXII)
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Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Topic: Crime
Source: Marble Faun (vol. I, ch. XXIII)
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within
itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the
spiritual part.
Topic: Disease
Source: The Scarlet Letter (ch. X)
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A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.
Topic: Disease
Source: None
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"Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well,"
answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her,
"we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve."
Topic: Eating
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The New Adam and Eve
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Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
Topic: Energy
Source: None
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It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through
all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender
and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were
kept warm in his mother's hand.
Topic: Feet
Source: The Marble Faun (vol. I, ch. XXI)
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Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he
throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every
human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
Topic: Genius
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Procession of Life
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A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.
Topic: Grave
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Guilt
Source: The House of Seven Gables--The Flight of Two Owls
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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Topic: Happiness
Source: None
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A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Topic: Health
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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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 true.
Topic: Honesty
Source: None
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Moonlight is sculpture.
Topic: Light
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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Topic: Melancholy
Source: None
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
Topic: Monument
Source: None
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Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
Topic: Morality
Source: Our Old Home--Lichfield and Uttoxeter
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One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the
applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the
colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely
away.
Topic: Painting
Source: Marble Faun (bk. II, ch. XII)
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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.
Topic: Property
Source: None
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The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
Topic: Punishment
Source: None
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In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and
full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment
of execution.
Topic: Resolution
Source: Twice-Told Tales--Fancy's Show Box
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Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by
the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Topic: Sickness
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Old Manse--The Procession of Life
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So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the
thirst of his spirit.
Topic: Singing
Source: Mosses from an Old Manse--The Birthmark
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