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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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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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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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