Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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