Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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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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