Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETrusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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