Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETo 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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.
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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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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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