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. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
   
Nathaniel Hawthorne   Name:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
American
Birth:
July 4, 1804
Death:
May 19, 1864
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