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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThough we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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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 want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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