What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Sunlight is painting.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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