What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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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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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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