Easy reading is damn hard writing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIf the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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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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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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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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Sunlight is painting.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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