What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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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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