Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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