We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEDream strange things and make them look like truth.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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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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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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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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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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