I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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