There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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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.
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