A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMen of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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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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