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.
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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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