We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEHappiness is like a butterfly.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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