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 HAWTHORNETo do nothing is the way to be nothing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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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.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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