Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAll 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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 greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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 other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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