The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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All 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.
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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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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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