What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThough we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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