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Tag: Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness is as

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.

Words — so

Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Happiness is as

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.

No man, for

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.