What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAnd there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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