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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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