The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEEasy reading is damn hard writing.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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