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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEShe had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover 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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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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.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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