What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWe must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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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 calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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