Sunlight is painting.
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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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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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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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 sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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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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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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