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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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To 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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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 inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.

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