Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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 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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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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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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