Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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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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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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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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