What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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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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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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 world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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