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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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Sunlight is painting.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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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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