The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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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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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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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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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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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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