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Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
If it be a sign of mourning," replied Mr. Hooper, "I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.
God", said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghastly look, at the undismayed countenance of his enemy, "God will give him blood to drink!
The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Development of the love of the beautiful, such as might have made him a poet, a painter, or a sculptor, and which was
In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.
Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.
This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.
A man
poet, prophet, or whatever be may be
readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.
poet, prophet, or whatever be may be
readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.
The sun was still marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright.
Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister as his black veil to them.
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.
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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.
Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
A stale article, if you did it in a good, warm, sunny smile will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.
It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.
Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.
That old woman taught me my catechism! said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.
Thou shalt say a thousand things, and saying them a thousand times over, thou shalt still have said nothing!
But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity.
What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world!
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.
You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction.
This shall be the last of my benevolent follies, and I will never be kind to anybody again as long as I live.
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.
Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?
O, what a joy for a shy man to feel himself so solitary, that he may lift his voice to its highest pitch without hazard of a listener!
Entire development would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization and refinement; the higher the state the