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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMen of cold passions have quick eyes.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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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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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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