Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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 book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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