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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETrusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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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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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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