Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEDream strange things and make them look like truth.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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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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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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