Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMen of cold passions have quick eyes.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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