To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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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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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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