Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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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.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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