A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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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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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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