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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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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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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 thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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