Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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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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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 greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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