No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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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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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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