We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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