We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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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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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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