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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

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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Nobody, 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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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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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