Moonlight is sculpture.
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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Sunlight is painting.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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