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 HAWTHORNELet men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into 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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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 hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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