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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhen 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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