And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
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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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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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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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It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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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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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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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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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