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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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Brutal Himself Man Rough Sensual
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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Hands Heart Man Passion Win Woman
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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Congratulation Death Dreams Moments Trouble Wake Up
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
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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Build Foundation Guilty Home Reality World
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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Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
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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Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Courage Happiness Philosophy Possession Release Wisdom Yourself
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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Experience People Time
Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Animal Happiness One Liner Philosophy Wisdom
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Easy Effort Hard Hard Work One Liner Poet Reading Writing
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Death Funny Mood Myself
I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Fight Resolution Wrong
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Advantage Artist Expression Photography Poet Poetry Reading Thinking
Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Dreams Strange Truth
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Appearance Letter Truth
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
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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Autumn Day Endurance Home Light Myself Shine Stay Sun Time
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Arrival Dumb Himself Man Perfection Word
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Appearance Friendship Man Recognition Trust
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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Description God Need Reality See Word
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Beyond Happiness Patience Philosophy Pursue Yourself
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Choice Happiness Pleasure
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Face Family Man Period True
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure

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