It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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