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Every man is the son of his own works.

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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

Know, Long Ago, Sat, Waiting, World
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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.

Heart, Love, Marble, Men, Passion, Reality

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Caresses, Die, Expression, Love, Roots

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

Befallen, Men, Seldom, Serious, Sufferer, Thinking

I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.

Come, Fine, Nature, Nonsense, See, Trying

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.

Children, Doors, Points, Rooted, Tree, Wide
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