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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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