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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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