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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Appearance Friendship Man Recognition Trust
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Fashion Happiness Love Rest
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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Appearance Life Lose Myself
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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Face Family Man Period True
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Book Combination Evil Goodness Hands Innocence Power Stand Word
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
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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Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
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
Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Animal Happiness One Liner Philosophy Wisdom
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Dedication Greatness Ideas Man Memories Monument Need Oneself Recognition Worth
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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Dreams Strange Truth
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Age Dreams Live Myself Regret
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Beyond Eyes Heart Seek Woman
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Deep Hate Love Observation Subject Wisdom

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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