Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAccuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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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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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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