This above all: be true, be true, be true.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEUgliness without tact is horrible.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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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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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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