Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe 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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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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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