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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Build Foundation Guilty Home Reality World
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Change Deep Dreams Evil Fashion Heart Place Revolution Secret Soul World
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Accuracy Brother Honesty
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
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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Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Cold Forget Man Memories Monument Oneself Sad
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Congratulation Death Dreams Moments Trouble Wake Up
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Earth Kind Man Spirit
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Advantage Artist Expression Photography Poet Poetry Reading Thinking
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Beyond Eyes Heart Seek Woman
Moonlight is sculpture.
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Art Light Moon One Liner
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Death Funny Mood Myself

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