Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEOur Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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I 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.
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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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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Sunlight is painting.
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