We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEArticulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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