We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThis world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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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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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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 hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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When 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.
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