Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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