Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The 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.
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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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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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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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 a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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 world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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