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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

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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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