My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAt 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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 sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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