Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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