This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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