All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEShe had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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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 other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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