It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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