Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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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Sunlight is painting.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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