The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEOur 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Sunlight is painting.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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