We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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I 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.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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