A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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