Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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