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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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Appearance Letter Truth
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Death Funny Mood Myself
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
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Hands Heart Man Passion Win Woman
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
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
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
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
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Divine Holy Pure Salt White
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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One Liner True
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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Art Light Moon One Liner
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Calm Distance Right True View
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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