Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEcho is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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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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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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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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