The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETo the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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