To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEUgliness without tact is horrible.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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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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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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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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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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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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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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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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