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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEJust as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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