Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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If 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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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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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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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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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