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Families are always rising and falling in America.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Ability Greatness Happiness Man Moral
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Experience People Time
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Courage Happiness Philosophy Possession Release Wisdom Yourself
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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Build Foundation Guilty Home Reality World
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Accuracy Brother Honesty
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Advantage Artist Expression Photography Poet Poetry Reading Thinking
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Mirror One Liner Reflection Voice
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Activity Evil Heart Human Life Philosophy
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Art Economics Friendship Religion Stranger
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dreams Moments Ourselves Sleep Wake Up
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Myself Wait World
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
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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Care God Love Need Seperate Sun Warm Window

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