Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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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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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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