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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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