Nathaniel Hawthorne on dreams
Nathaniel Hawthorne85 quotes“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
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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.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne 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 HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne This above all: be true, be true, be true.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne Ugliness without tact is horrible.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne 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.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne 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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