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 dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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