It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENo man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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 inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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