Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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