A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNENo 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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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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 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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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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