What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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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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