We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Sunlight is painting.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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.
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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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