Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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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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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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