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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Song Taste Voice World
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 have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Dreams Strange Truth
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Beyond Eyes Heart Seek Woman
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
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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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