Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEArticulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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