The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEHappiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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