Ugliness without tact is horrible.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNECaresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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 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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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.
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