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.
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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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 want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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