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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThere is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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