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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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 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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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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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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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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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Sunlight is painting.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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 an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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