We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNESalt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Sunlight is painting.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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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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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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