Happiness is like a butterfly.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENobody, 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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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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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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