What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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.
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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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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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