What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNECaresses, 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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