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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Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Shame, Depair, Soltude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones,- and they had made her str...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Do anything, save to lie down and die!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
A grave and dark-clad company," quoth Goodman Brown.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qual...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's mor...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he choos...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfa...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they sp...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a mu...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
This was insane!

Yes, he was hot, but so was Nick. Yes, he was nice, but so was Nick. Yes...
RACHEL HAWTHORNE
A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive ass...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy....
MAYER HAWTHORNE
Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy....
MAYER HAWTHORNE
Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
you mourn, you hurt and you start to heal.
RACHEL HAWTHORNE
James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense -...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try ...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
The results were fantastic? they weren't expected to be so high.
ALAN HAWTHORNE
I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
We have a contract in place with a developer. We're not at the point where we can name the developer...
ALAN HAWTHORNE
We're very excited about it. There is a need for this kind of housing in the community. They will be...
ALAN HAWTHORNE
Do you really expect the world of man to believe that innocent people had to die so you could make y...
ALICE HAWTHORNE
You are a very small man, and like other men (of small stature), you have a Napoleonic complex and a...
ALICE HAWTHORNE
Every anniversary has been filled with anger, weeping and sorrow, but this anniversary brings to an ...
ALICE HAWTHORNE
My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the m...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul inf...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people ...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing May...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, som...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual event...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
Since childhood, I had always been affected by the changes of the moon, sometimes very much so. As t...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
After breakfast I spent an hour cleaning my revolver and trying my skill at a target. Jane shook her...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come ...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of ima...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the ...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
...the natures of solitary people are apt to have more unmapped country in them than worldly folk im...
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
The trouble with competitors' sycophants is they don't know where to put their tongues. Here's a sug...
MAX HAWTHORNE
...adopt the "practice makes progress" approach
MARK HAWTHORNE
It allowed public-land managers to prohibit anything at all if it might harm some resource.
BRIAN HAWTHORNE
It is good to know one's enemy.
It is better to know one's self.
MAX HAWTHORNE
I've been through a lot of situations with women and if I can help someone else avoid the pitfal...
MAYER HAWTHORNE
They have accepted everything we've asked them to do and are playing a high level of volleyball.
EMILY HAWTHORNE
At this point, she's our most improved player. She is still building confidence. Since she is about ...
EMILY HAWTHORNE
Those two have pushed themselves and pushed the team to play at a higher level.
EMILY HAWTHORNE
I think most of it comes from each person knowing their role on the team.
EMILY HAWTHORNE