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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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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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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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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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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