What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEager 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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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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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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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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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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.
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