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Happiness is like a butterfly ...
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Some illusions ... are the shadows of great truths.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Not yet hardened, many young die good.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
She wanted - what some people want throughout life - a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Be true, be true, be true.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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
The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Be it sin or no, I hate the man!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
This above all: be true, be true, be true.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
And I love to watch how the day, tired as it is, lags away reluctantly, and hates to be called yesterday so soon.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Let us not look back, the past is gone! Wherefore should we linger upon it now?
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moonlight is sculpture.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Generosity is the flower of justice.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles;
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care which all of us owe to providence.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart ... converted it into a tomb.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ugliness without tact is horrible.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The secrets that may be buried with a human heart.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Entire development would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization and refinement; the higher the state the
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Preach! Write! Act! Do anything save to lie down and die.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts ...
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gayety.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Peace be with all the world! My blessing on my friends! My forgiveness to my enemies! For I am in the realm of quiet!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
MAY AND NOVEMBER VI.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Little, impalpable worlds, were those soap-bubbles, with the big world depicted, in hues bright as imagination, on the nothing of their surface.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thus content with an inner sphere which they inhabit together, it is not immediately that the outward world can obtrude itself upon their notice.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
O exquisite relief! She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom! By
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Give me a rose, that I may press its thorns, and prove myself awake by the sharp touch of pain!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The most powerful minds are not always the best acquainted with their own feelings.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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
The ever relentless
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thou shalt say a thousand things, and saying them a thousand times over, thou shalt still have said nothing!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Perhaps a germ of love was springing in their hearts so pure that it might blossom in Paradise, since it could not be matured on earth;
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
That old woman taught me my catechism! said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842] — Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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
The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.
— Herman Melville
Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
A forced smile is uglier than a frown.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release ...
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
