Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling...

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling...

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits...

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits...

Moonlight is sculpture.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which,...

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which,...

I hate track! I hate running! Running around and around and around and around, and...

I hate track! I hate running! Running around and around and around and around, and...

Sunlight is painting.

Sunlight is painting.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might...

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might...

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which,...

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which,...

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going...

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going...

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if...

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if...

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as...

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as...

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born...

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born...

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going...

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going...

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot...

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot...

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how...

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how...