Families are always rising and falling in America.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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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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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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