Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIf the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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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