Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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