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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEOur 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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