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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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 thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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