Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAnd there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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