She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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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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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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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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