A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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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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