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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

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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
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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Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Forest Marketing Place Talk
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Ordinary Poison Quiet Woman
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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Choice Important Place Self Love Worth
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Inspirational Mindset Power Thinking Yourself
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
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Eyes Fingers Philosophy Reality See Spiritual Touch True
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
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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Care God Love Need Seperate Sun Warm Window
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Agony Heart Illusion Laughter Myself Pain Reality
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Earth Monument Mountain Nature One Liner
Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Build Life One Liner
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Cold Forget Man Memories Monument Oneself Sad

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