There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAccuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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