Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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 inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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