She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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