We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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