The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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