Happiness is like a butterfly.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENobody, 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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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