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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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 world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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