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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Horrible One Liner Ugly
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Gratitude Hands Happiness Need Philosophy Satisfaction Seek
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Beyond Happiness Patience Philosophy Pursue Yourself
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 HAWTHORNE

Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Man Measurement Wisdom
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Face Family Man Period True
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
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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Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Art Economics Friendship Religion Stranger
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Appearance Letter Truth
My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Commitment Entertainment Fortune Ideas Murder Person Suicide
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Song Taste Voice World
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Body Spiritual Symptom

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