Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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 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.
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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