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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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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 world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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