Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETrusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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 sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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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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