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 HAWTHORNELet men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
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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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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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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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Generosity is the flower of justice.
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I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.
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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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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure – that is the choicest of all.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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All 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.
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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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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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