Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEI find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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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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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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