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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNELove, 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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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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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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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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