A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEHappiness 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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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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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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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