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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWhen scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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All 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.
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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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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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