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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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I 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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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