Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEArticulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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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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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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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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