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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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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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