There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEGenerosity is the flower of justice.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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