The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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.
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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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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.
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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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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.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Sunlight is painting.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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