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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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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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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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