Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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 must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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