It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEvery 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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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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 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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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