Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God’s care and pity for every separate need.
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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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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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