Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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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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