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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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