Nathaniel Hawthorne

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"Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."	Darkness, Happiness, Joy
"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."	Darkness, Happiness, Joy
"In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago."	Age, Knowledge, Life
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed."	Doubt, Excellence, Honesty
"The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we."	Miscellaneous
"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."	Happiness, Joy, Men

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