A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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