The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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