Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNELife is made up of marble and mud.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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When 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.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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 heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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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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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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