Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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