The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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