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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use 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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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