What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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