"What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow."
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"Life is made up of marble and mud."
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"Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it."
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"Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror."
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"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!"
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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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"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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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
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"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."
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"The breath of peace was fanning her glorious brow, her head was bowed a very little forward, and a tress, escaping from its bonds, fell by the side of her pure white temple, and close to her just opened lips; it hung there motionless! no breath disturbed its repose! She slept as an angel might sleep, having accomplished the mission of her God."
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"Happiness is like a butterfly."
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"Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing."
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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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"What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it."
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"I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it."
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"A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom."
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"I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air."
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"Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver."
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"Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty."
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"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
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