Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThough we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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