The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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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 is like a butterfly.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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