Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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