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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEasy reading is damn hard writing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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