She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEager 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Nobody, 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.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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