Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENobody, 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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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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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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