Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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A pure hand needs no glove to cover 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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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