What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Sunlight is painting.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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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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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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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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