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 HAWTHORNEThough we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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