We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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