Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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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.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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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.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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