Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEOh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Sunlight is painting.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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