What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWords – 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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