What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIf 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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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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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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