Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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