Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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