Happiness is like a butterfly.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIf 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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