All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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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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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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