I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETo do nothing is the way to be nothing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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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.
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