Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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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There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
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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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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Happiness is like a butterfly.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
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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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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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