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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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There 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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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