Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNELife is made up of marble and mud.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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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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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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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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