The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover 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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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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