Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThough we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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