Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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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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