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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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.

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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

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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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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

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Sunlight is painting.

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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

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Moonlight is sculpture.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 4th, 1804

Died: May 19th, 1864

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