Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMoonlight is sculpture.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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 singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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