And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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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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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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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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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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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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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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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