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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEDream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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