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 HAWTHORNEWe go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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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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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Sunlight is painting.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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