The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNESelfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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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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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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