The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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