There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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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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