And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEMen of cold passions have quick eyes.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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 hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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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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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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Sunlight is painting.
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