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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Choice Important Place Self Love Worth
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
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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Face Family Man Period True
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Easy People World
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Darkness Heart Oneself
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Art Economics Friendship Religion Stranger
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Song Taste Voice World
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Deep Hands Pure
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Build Life One Liner
I 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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Autumn Day Endurance Home Light Myself Shine Stay Sun Time
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Calm Distance Right True View
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Philosophy Reflection River Spiritual Tree World
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dreams Moments Ourselves Sleep Wake Up

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

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