Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNELife is made up of marble and mud.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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 trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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