Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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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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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 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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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