She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEcho is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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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.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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 marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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