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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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 we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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