Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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 inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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