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 HAWTHORNETo do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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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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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Sunlight is painting.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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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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