Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWords – 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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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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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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