We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETime flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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