What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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