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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 Hawthorne

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Change Deep Dreams Evil Fashion Heart Place Revolution Secret Soul World
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

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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 HAWTHORNE

Change Greatness Intellectual Kind Man Stand
Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Accuracy Brother Honesty
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Black Body Death Heart Myself Politics
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Arrival Dumb Himself Man Perfection Word
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Inspirational Mindset Power Thinking Yourself
Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Animal Happiness One Liner Philosophy Wisdom
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Earth Heaven Nature Region Transformation
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Beyond Eyes Heart Seek Woman
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 HAWTHORNE

Body Spiritual Symptom
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Brutal Himself Man Rough Sensual
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Forest Marketing Place Talk
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Myself Wait World
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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Cold Eyes Man Passion Quick

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.

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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.

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