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 HAWTHORNEThis above all: be true, be true, be true.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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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.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
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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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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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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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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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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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To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
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