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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Beyond Eyes Heart Seek Woman
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Death Funny Mood Myself
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Ability Greatness Happiness Man Moral
Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Experience People Time
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Myself Wait World
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Forest Marketing Place Talk
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Earth Monument Mountain Nature One Liner
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Courage Happiness Philosophy Possession Release Wisdom Yourself
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dreams Happiness Leadership Philosophy Possible Pursuit Wild Wisdom World
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Change Deep Dreams Evil Fashion Heart Place Revolution Secret Soul World
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Existence Fake False Himself Light Man Shadow True Universe
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Ordinary Poison Quiet Woman
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Song Taste Voice World
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Hands Heart Man Passion Win Woman

Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.

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