The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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