A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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