Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMoonlight is sculpture.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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