Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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 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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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with 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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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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