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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENo man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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