What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhen 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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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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