Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhat is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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