Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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