What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIf mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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