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 HAWTHORNEDeath should take me while I am in the mood.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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