Sunlight is painting.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEvery individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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.
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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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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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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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