Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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The 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.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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