Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEHappiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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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.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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 is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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