A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIf the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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A 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.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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 want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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