"False happiness is like false money it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch we find the lightness and alloy and feel the loss."

Emotion, Happiness, Falsehood, Values, Truth

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"False happiness is like false money it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch we find the lightness and alloy and feel the loss."

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"Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest."

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"The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive."

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"Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust."

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"When I am with you, even the water makes me drank."

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"I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore."

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"It hurts deeper is when somebody you love becomes someone you loved."

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"Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"Smiley tears and teary smiles are priceless."

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"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."

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"Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."

Education

"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

Morality

"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."

Nature

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot."

Wisdom

"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart."

Enlightenment

"In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel."

Philosophy

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

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"Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return."

Mortality

"The feast of reason and the flow of soul."

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"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian."

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