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Life Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may…
- 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…
- It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.
- Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.
- The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.
- At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on…
- It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Life is made up of marble and mud.
- In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.
- It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development,…
- She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.
- I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
- What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to…
- Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost…
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle