Happiness is like a butterfly.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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