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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEHappiness 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover 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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Sunlight is painting.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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