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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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.
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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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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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