Happiness is like a butterfly.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNECaresses, 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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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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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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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