Generosity is the flower of justice.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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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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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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 thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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