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 HAWTHORNEShe had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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