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Nathaniel Hawthorne — Portrait after a picture by Mathew Benjamin Brady (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

American author

1804–1864

23 quotes, most often on Love, Truth & Lies and Happiness.

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
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XX: The Flower of Eden
- Change
- Happiness
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1851
- Happiness

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