A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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