Generosity is the flower of justice.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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