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• Life is made up of marble and mud. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 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.
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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.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. -- Francis Baco
• Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?
  Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise....
• An ancient buddha said, Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.
  These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains. -- Doge...