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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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