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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

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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Darkness Heart Oneself
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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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 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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Dreams Moments Ourselves Sleep Wake Up
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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