Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAt no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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