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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEA hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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This above all: be true, be true, be true.
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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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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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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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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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