She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of 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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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 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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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