Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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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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