The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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