We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, … - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.

Happier, Matter, Might, People, Taste

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

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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

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Dana Carvey

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

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I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature that brings the conversation of God into a modern context. I love the Bible, but in the West we've analyzed it until it fits into a structure of control. We need more new stories. We need different ways of looking at things, and I think it's coming.

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Matthew Modine

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game. . . usually softball.

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Albert Einstein

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

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Franck Ribery