Happiness is like a butterfly.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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 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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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