Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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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 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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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