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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIf the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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