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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNESalt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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