Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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