We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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