What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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