What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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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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