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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
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
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
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
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Arrival Dumb Himself Man Perfection Word
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
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Divine Holy Pure Salt White
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Forest Marketing Place Talk
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Choice Happiness Pleasure
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
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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Congratulation Death Dreams Moments Trouble Wake Up
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Environment Hero World
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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God Meaning Talk Voice
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom

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