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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

«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»
«No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.»
«Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.»
«Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.»
«Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.»
«What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self !»
«Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novelist, Writer) | About: Time | Keywords: flies
«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.»
«Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.»
«She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom!»

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