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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Dreams Moments Ourselves Sleep Wake Up
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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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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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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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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