Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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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.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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