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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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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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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom
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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Experience People Time
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
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Darkness Heart Oneself
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
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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One Liner True
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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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
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time

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