Of all the events which constitute a persons biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be Acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
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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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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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