The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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