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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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Build Foundation Guilty Home Reality World
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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One Liner True
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
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Environment Hero World
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Song Taste Voice World
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
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
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Courage Happiness Philosophy Possession Release Wisdom Yourself
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Appearance Letter Truth
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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Care God Love Need Seperate Sun Warm Window
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
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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Ordinary Poison Quiet Woman

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