There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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