Nathaniel Hawthorne

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

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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 s

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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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

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Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the han

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.

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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

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Life is made up of marble and mud.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

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No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewilder

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 true.

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