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 HAWTHORNEWhat we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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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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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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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 trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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