We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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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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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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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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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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