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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Dreams Moments Ourselves Sleep Wake Up
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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