The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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
-
-
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE