There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEShe had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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 thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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