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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEHappiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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