Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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