Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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