Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEHappiness is like a butterfly.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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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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Sunlight is painting.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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