Happiness is like a butterfly.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNESelfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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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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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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