Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEDeath should take me while I am in the mood.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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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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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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