Ugliness without tact is horrible.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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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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