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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEShe had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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 calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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