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.
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 hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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