Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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If 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.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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