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 HAWTHORNEDeath should take me while I am in the mood.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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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 calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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