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 HAWTHORNEThe inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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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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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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