The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEShe had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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 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 must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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