There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETime flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use 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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE