Moonlight is sculpture.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThough we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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