We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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A 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.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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