It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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