Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETo do nothing is the way to be nothing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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