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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Eyes Fingers Philosophy Reality See Spiritual Touch True
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Affection Battle Brave Life Man Physical
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Fight Resolution Wrong
Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Experience People Time
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 HAWTHORNE

Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Deep Fly One Liner Shadow Time
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Agony Heart Illusion Laughter Myself Pain Reality
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Congratulation Death Dreams Moments Trouble Wake Up
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Mirror One Liner Reflection Voice
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Song Taste Voice World
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Choice Important Place Self Love Worth
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World

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