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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEGenerosity is the flower of justice.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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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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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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