Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEGenerosity is the flower of justice.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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