A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETime flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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 is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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