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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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Born Creation Death Heart Love Radiance Shine Sun World
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Fashion Happiness Love Rest
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

One Liner True
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Philosophy Reflection River Spiritual Tree World
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Face Family Man Period True
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Choice Important Place Self Love Worth
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Divine Holy Pure Salt White
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Easy People World
A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Man Measurement Wisdom
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Activity Evil Heart Human Life Philosophy
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Beyond Creation Day Enjoyment Heart Immortal Love Thinking
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Deep Hands Pure
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Earth Monument Mountain Nature One Liner
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Cold Forget Man Memories Monument Oneself Sad

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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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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