She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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