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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Earth Kind Man Spirit
Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Animal Happiness One Liner Philosophy Wisdom
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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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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Ability Greatness Happiness Man Moral
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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Frame Heart Intellectual Mad
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Beyond Happiness Patience Philosophy Pursue Yourself
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 world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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