Inspirational Quotes » Nathaniel Hawthorne

Quote #28517

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Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp… But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Quote #28518

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The trees reflected in the river — they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

Quote #28519

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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool the truest heroism is

Quote #28520

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In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in reali

Quote #28521

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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

Quote #28522

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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart What jailer so inexorable as one’s self

Quote #15776

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:14:35 +0000

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

Quote #15209

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:14:28 +0000

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.

Quote #13611

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:14:11 +0000

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.

Quote #10877

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:40 +0000

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.