Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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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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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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