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.
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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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