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.
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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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