"And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me."
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"I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound."
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"We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep."
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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! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality."
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"Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these."
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"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."
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"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."
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"There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger."
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"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."
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"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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"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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"A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes."
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"Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm."
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"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October."
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"Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn."
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"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."
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"A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress."
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"As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous brotherhood."
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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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"We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep."
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