Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEvery individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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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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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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