It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEHappiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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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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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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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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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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