Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNELove, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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