And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNECaresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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