Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNESalt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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