A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEHappiness is like a butterfly.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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