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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Body Spiritual Symptom
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Philosophy Reflection River Spiritual Tree 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
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Deep Hate Love Observation Subject Wisdom
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time
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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Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Calm Distance Right True View
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom
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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Frame Heart Intellectual Mad
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Death Funny Mood Myself
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
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 come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Description God Need Reality See Word
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Choice Happiness Pleasure

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

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