The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENo 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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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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 need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for 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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