We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThis above all: be true, be true, be true.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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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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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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