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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Darkness Heart Oneself
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Beyond Eyes Heart Seek Woman
Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Build Life One Liner
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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time
Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Experience People Time
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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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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