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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Forest Marketing Place Talk
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Appearance Life Lose Myself
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Agony Heart Illusion Laughter Myself Pain Reality
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Song Taste Voice World
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
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
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Gratitude Hands Happiness Need Philosophy Satisfaction Seek
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
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Age Dreams Live Myself Regret
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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Change Deep Dreams Evil Fashion Heart Place Revolution Secret Soul World
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure
Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Flower Generosity Justice 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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Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
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
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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Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.

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