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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.

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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life, Mud, Made
1851 The House of the Seven Gables, ch.2.

Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life, Figures, Procession
Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Procession of Life”, p.3, Booklassic

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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love, Life, Heart
Nathaniel Hawthorne (2016). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10”, p.343, Library of America

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life, Success, World

It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life, Body, Littles
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.284

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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life, Sweet, Heart
Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.931, e-artnow

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