Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEAll 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.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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 calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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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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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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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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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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