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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNELove, 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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