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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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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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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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