Families are always rising and falling in America.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAll brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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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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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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