Generosity is the flower of justice.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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