Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes About Life
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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.
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It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.
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Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
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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 the outward world.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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 bring her close to his heart.
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Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.
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