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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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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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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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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