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 HAWTHORNEWhat other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Sunlight is painting.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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