There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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