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 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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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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Sunlight is painting.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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