What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETo do nothing is the way to be nothing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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