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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Divine Holy Pure Salt White
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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 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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Inspirational Love Quality Selfishness
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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Body Spiritual Symptom
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Dreams Strange Truth
Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Bond Fall Family Relationship Rise
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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