She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEasy reading is damn hard writing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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