Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMy fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Sunlight is painting.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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