It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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 greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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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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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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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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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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