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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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