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 HAWTHORNEIt contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for 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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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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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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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