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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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 man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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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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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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