The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEDream strange things and make them look like truth.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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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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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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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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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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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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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Caresses, 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.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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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Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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