We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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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.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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