Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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