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.
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 calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Sunlight is painting.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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