She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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