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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI 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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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 is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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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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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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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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