Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEFamilies are always rising and falling in America.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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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 will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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