Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThis world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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 other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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