Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENobody, 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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