We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEDeath should take me while I am in the mood.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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