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 HAWTHORNEAll brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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