A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNESunlight is painting.
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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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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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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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