What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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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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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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