We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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