Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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When 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.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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