This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWords – 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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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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