This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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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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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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