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.
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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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