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 HAWTHORNENobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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