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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEShe had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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