Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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 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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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