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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENo man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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