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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEJust as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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