Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThough we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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.
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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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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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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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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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