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 HAWTHORNEAccuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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 not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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