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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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