Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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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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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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