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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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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 true.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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