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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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 is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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