If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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