A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEUgliness without tact is horrible.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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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.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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