The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThis above all: be true, be true, be true.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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