black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Fools Greatness Hero Obstacle
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Affection Care Death Expression Life Love Necessary Root Wisdom
Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Experience People Time
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.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Appointment Care Eyes Job Occupation Ordinary People Time
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Body Spiritual Symptom
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Atmosphere Book Page Reading See Shine Sun Writing
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Best Friendship Intimate Nature Worst
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Environment Hero World
The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Calm Distance Right True View
Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Courage Happiness Philosophy Possession Release Wisdom Yourself
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Deep Feeling Freedom Weight
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Deep Inspirational One Liner Wasted Time
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Myself Wait World
Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Divine Holy Pure Salt White
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 HAWTHORNE

Book Combination Evil Goodness Hands Innocence Power Stand Word
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Arrival Dumb Himself Man Perfection Word

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes