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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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#Limits
#Man
#Men
#World
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 Hawthorne
#Find
#Great
#Look
#Nobody
#Poetry
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Better
#Fresh
#Good
#Smile
#Will
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Inspire
#Love
#Qualities
#Selfishness
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Earth
#Monuments
#Mountains
#Nature
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Accuracy
#Brother
#Dishonesty
#Honesty
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Always
#Forest
#Happens
#Talk
#Us
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Congratulate
#Death
#Moment
#Sometimes
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Die
#Life
#Love
#Relationship
#Tree
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Best
#Friend
#Friendship
#Nature
#Worst
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Find
#Follow
#Happiness
#Never
#World
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Every
#He
#Important
#Place
#Respect
#World
Sunlight is painting.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Nature
#Painting
#Sunlight
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Damn
#Easy
#Hard
#Reading
#Writing
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Courage
#Doubt
#Fool
#Heroism
#Self
#Wisdom
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Dark
#Heart
#Other
#Own
#Self
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Face
#Finally
#Man
#True
#Wear
Life is made up of marble and mud.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Life
#Made
#Marble
#Mud
#Up
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Happiness
#Human
#New
#Prison
#Project
#Virtue
Moonlight is sculpture.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Moonlight
#Nature
#Sculpture
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Brainy
#Cover
#Hand
#Needs
#Pure
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Art
#Economics
#Kin
#Religion
#Strangers
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Behind
#Shadow
#Time Flies
#Time
#Us
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Heart
#Love
#Romantic
#Sunshine
#World
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.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Butterfly
#Happiness
#Inspirational
#Sit
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.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
#Communication
#Evil
#Good And Evil
#Good
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