Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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