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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMoonlight is sculpture.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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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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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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