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• No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
• From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• 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.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• 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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• And the cold marble leapt to life a god. -- Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868) -- The Belvedere Apollo
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• It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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