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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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Caresses, 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.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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