What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMen of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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