"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued,……" — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you"
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203 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you…
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable…
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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will…
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry…
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Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it…
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us,…
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Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great…
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
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It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more…
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The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are…
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There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that…
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On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten…
— Pope John XXIII
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— Lenny Kaye
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It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
— Winston Churchill
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a…
— Tahir Shah
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Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely,…
— Rhonda Byrne
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All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this…
— Robert Greene
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One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.
— Robert Greene
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The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary,…
— Stephen Leacock
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