A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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