Generosity is the flower of justice.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEJust as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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If 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.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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