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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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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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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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Words – 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.
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