What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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