Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAccuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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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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.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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