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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNETime flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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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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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.
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