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 HAWTHORNEEcho is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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