Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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