Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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