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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Agony Heart Illusion Laughter Myself Pain Reality
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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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.
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Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Appearance Life Lose Myself
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Ordinary Poison Quiet Woman
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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Experience People Time
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Calm Distance Right True View
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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.

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