Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNESalt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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