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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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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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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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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.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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