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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Inspirational Love Quality Selfishness
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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Beyond Eyes Heart Seek Woman
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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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