This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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