If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhen scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Sunlight is painting.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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