This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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