Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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