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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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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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