She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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