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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Animal Happiness One Liner Philosophy Wisdom
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Darkness Heart Oneself
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Fashion Happiness Love Rest
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Deep Hate Love Observation Subject Wisdom
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick
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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Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
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
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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Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Brutal Himself Man Rough Sensual
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
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
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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Advantage Artist Expression Photography Poet Poetry Reading Thinking
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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Care God Love Need Seperate Sun Warm Window
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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