We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEDeath should take me while I am in the mood.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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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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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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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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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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