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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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