There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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Sunlight is painting.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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