Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
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Don't despair of a student if he has one clear idea
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Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.
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In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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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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 to be obeyed.
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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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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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So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul
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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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 true.
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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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Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
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Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
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