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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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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