Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEasy reading is damn hard writing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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