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 HAWTHORNEThe world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Caresses, 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.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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