This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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