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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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 a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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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 heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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