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.
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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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