The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNESunlight is painting.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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