A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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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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