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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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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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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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