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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. ↗

— Jane Porter

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#brightness #happiness #heart #itself #kindred

The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page. ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

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#nature #nayeri #wood-house #nature

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin. ↗

— Mary Astell

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#commit #endure #greater #greatest #grief