Moonlight is sculpture.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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