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.
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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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Sunlight is painting.
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