The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEIt 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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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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Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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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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