Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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