Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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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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