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Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Not yet hardened, many young die good. Not yet hardened, many young die good.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair. Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: People always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser ... People always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in? What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Dream strange things and make them look like truth. Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard Nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Her breast, with its badge of shame, was but the softer pillow for the head that needed one. Her breast, with its badge of shame, was but the softer pillow for the head that needed one.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger. There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: If it be a sign of mourning," replied Mr. Hooper, "I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil. If it be a sign of mourning," replied Mr. Hooper, "I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: God", said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghastly look, at the undismayed countenance of his enemy, "God will give him blood to drink! God", said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghastly look, at the undismayed countenance of his enemy, "God will give him blood to drink!
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments. The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it. I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: A grave and dark-clad company, quoth Goodman Brown. A grave and dark-clad company, quoth Goodman Brown.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Development of the love of the beautiful, such as might have made him a poet, a painter, or a sculptor, and which was Development of the love of the beautiful, such as might have made him a poet, a painter, or a sculptor, and which was
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point. In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday. Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: The secret is," said Phoebe, smiling, "that I have learned how to talk with hens and chickens. The secret is," said Phoebe, smiling, "that I have learned how to talk with hens and chickens.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Sunlight is painting. Sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: evil is the nature of mankind. evil is the nature of mankind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror. Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: With Heaven above and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the Devil! With Heaven above and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the Devil!
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself." "Men sometimes are so," said her husband. I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself." "Men sometimes are so," said her husband.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously. This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued. It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread. Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: The closer you penetrated to the substance of his mind, the sounder it appeared. The closer you penetrated to the substance of his mind, the sounder it appeared.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: A manpoet, prophet, or whatever be may bereadily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered. A man
poet, prophet, or whatever be may be
readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: The sun was still marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright. The sun was still marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: To do nothing is the way to be nothing. To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Every crime destroys more Edens than our own Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen. Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Life is made up of marble and mud. Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister as his black veil to them. Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister as his black veil to them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: 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. 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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future. The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Success presented itself as an impossibility, and the hope of it as a wild hallucination. Success presented itself as an impossibility, and the hope of it as a wild hallucination.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared. Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death. Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so in exorable as one's self! What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so in exorable as one's self!
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized. Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Next to the lightest heart, the heaviest is apt to be most playful. Next to the lightest heart, the heaviest is apt to be most playful.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: It loves more readily than it hates. It loves more readily than it hates.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: A stale article, if you did it in a good, warm, sunny smile will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon. A stale article, if you did it in a good, warm, sunny smile will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand. Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself. It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Let us not look back, the past is gone! Wherefore should we linger upon it now? Let us not look back, the past is gone! Wherefore should we linger upon it now?
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak! Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gayety. We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gayety.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods. Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: That old woman taught me my catechism! said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment. That old woman taught me my catechism! said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections. There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Thou shalt say a thousand things, and saying them a thousand times over, thou shalt still have said nothing! Thou shalt say a thousand things, and saying them a thousand times over, thou shalt still have said nothing!
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity. But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world! What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world!
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: MAY AND NOVEMBER VI. MAY AND NOVEMBER VI.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee. No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: O exquisite relief! She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom! By O exquisite relief! She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom! By
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it! The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. 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 quotes: I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away. A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction. You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: This shall be the last of my benevolent follies, and I will never be kind to anybody again as long as I live. This shall be the last of my benevolent follies, and I will never be kind to anybody again as long as I live.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning. Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable. The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it. What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them! Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Keep the imagination sanethat is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven. Keep the imagination sane
that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works. Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession. Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none? Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Generosity is the flower of justice. Generosity is the flower of justice.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: O, what a joy for a shy man to feel himself so solitary, that he may lift his voice to its highest pitch without hazard of a listener! O, what a joy for a shy man to feel himself so solitary, that he may lift his voice to its highest pitch without hazard of a listener!
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Entire development would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization and refinement; the higher the state the Entire development would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization and refinement; the higher the state the
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: Preach! Write! Act! Do anything save to lie down and die. Preach! Write! Act! Do anything save to lie down and die.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts ... It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart. My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: This above all: be true, be true, be true. This above all: be true, be true, be true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes: A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes. A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

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