She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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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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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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