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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

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

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. — Don DeLillo

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

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

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne