A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAt 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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