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.
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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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