Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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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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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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