What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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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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