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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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