Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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To 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.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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