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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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