Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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