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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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