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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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 thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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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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