Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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