Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWords – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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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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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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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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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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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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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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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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