Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes

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

Simile Happiness

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, …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 the true.

To do nothing is the way to be …To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Action Short

She had not known the weight until she felt the …She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Short Freedom

Easy reading is damn hard …Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Writing Reading Short

Death should take me while I am in the …Death should take me while I am in the mood.

Death Short Humor

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the …I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.

Nature



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