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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAt 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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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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