Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEOh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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