It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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