What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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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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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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