Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIf the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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 marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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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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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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