Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNECaresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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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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It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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