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.
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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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