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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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
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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Build Foundation Guilty Home Reality World
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
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Art Economics Friendship Religion Stranger
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Inspirational Love Quality Selfishness
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
Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Flower Generosity Justice One Liner
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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Description God Need Reality See Word
No 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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Face Family Man Period True
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Fools Greatness Hero Obstacle
I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Appearance Life Lose Myself
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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Ability Greatness Happiness Man Moral
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Appearance Letter Truth
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

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