There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEHappiness is like a butterfly.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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