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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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 an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of 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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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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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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