Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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