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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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