To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEager 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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