What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEOh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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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.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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