The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENo 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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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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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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 singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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