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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 HAWTHORNE

Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Book Combination Evil Goodness Hands Innocence Power Stand Word
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Fashion Happiness Love Rest
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Choice Important Place Self Love Worth
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Bond Fall Family Relationship Rise
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Arrival Dumb Himself Man Perfection Word
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Divine Holy Pure Salt White
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dedication Greatness Ideas Man Memories Monument Need Oneself Recognition Worth
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Description God Need Reality See Word
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Autumn Day Endurance Home Light Myself Shine Stay Sun Time
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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Easy Happiness Limitation Man Sick World

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