Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEasy reading is damn hard writing.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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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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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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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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