A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere. Nathaniel Hawthorne More Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne More Quotes From Nathaniel Hawthorne But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints. Nathaniel Hawthorne men mean people This above all: be true, be true, be true. Nathaniel Hawthorne being-true healing Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized. Nathaniel Hawthorne success life world Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. Nathaniel Hawthorne selfish love inspire it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Nathaniel Hawthorne hate hatred love-is Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down? Nathaniel Hawthorne struggle wish men Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. Nathaniel Hawthorne climbing mountain nature I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you. Nathaniel Hawthorne wish heart love The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street. Nathaniel Hawthorne elderly men book Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty. Nathaniel Hawthorne honesty twins brother Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for it to land on you. Nathaniel Hawthorne butterfly land moving A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. Nathaniel Hawthorne integrity hands needs Moonlight is sculpture. Nathaniel Hawthorne sculpture sunrise sunset I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God's making it in reality. Nathaniel Hawthorne nonsense nature trying Generosity is the flower of justice. Nathaniel Hawthorne generosity flower inspirational There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October. Nathaniel Hawthorne autumn nature feelings She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. Nathaniel Hawthorne singing-songs music voice When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude. Nathaniel Hawthorne iron butterfly attitude It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,--beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,--so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another. Nathaniel Hawthorne spring beautiful sweet Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Nathaniel Hawthorne dream science mean
