A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETime flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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 must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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